suggestion

From Anglo-Norman suggestioun, Old French suggestion (modern French suggestion), from Latin suggestiō, from suggero (“suggest”).

• IPA^(key): /səˈdʒɛstjən/
• IPA^(key): /səɡˈdʒɛstʃən/

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suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural suggestions)

1. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

   I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.

   Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

2. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.

   Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

3. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

   He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

4. The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
5. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

• (something suggested): hint, incitement, proposal
• See also Thesaurus:advice

• suggest
• suggestive

suggestion

1. Genitive singular form of suggestio.

Borrowed from Latin suggestiō.

• IPA^(key): /syɡ.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃/

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suggestion f (plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal
2. suggestion (psychology, etc.)

• suggérer

• “suggestion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Latin suggestiō.

suggestion f (oblique plural suggestions, nominative singular suggestion, nominative plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal

• suggestion on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub